On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 11:05, Sean Middleditch wrote: > Synaptic is anything but friendly. It is a direct, raw wrapping of the > apt command-line. You still have to actually understand how apt works, > what the different between update, upgrade, and dist-upgrade are, have > to deal with the lack of categorization in RPM packages, etc. Have you tried a recent version of synaptic? It has received a large amount of UI polish in the past couple of months. In particular, update/upgrade/dist-upgrade have been replaced by refresh/apply. Searching, progress indicators, and context menu are greatly improved too. I'd love to see a comparable tool for YUM. Nathan
